putting The Communists Have the Music on loop so that my code compiles faster
siri how many minutes does postmarketOS take to build its image
in this case, 26 minutes
ok so the next step of this venture is to see whether my dad enabled developer mode before he gave me this phone six years ago
that's right! this thing has a warped screen, which means the top and bottom are no longer responsive to touch input. so the only way i will be able to get into this phone is to use ADB
ok, apparently he did not. which means im stuck for a little bit. until i find my USB OTG adapter, at least
....shit, i don't remember my dad's pin
My wife has ordered me to go to bed so I’m putting this down for a couple days lol
i need to figure out my next angle of attack. sony is too smart and if it was as easy as faking the recovery image to flash whatever i wanted, there would be like, guides on doing that
my current thought is that i could strip the OS down to the bare minimum and then just run a term env inside it. that may be suboptimal, but it probably would still work
ok, it appears that rooting the device while keeping the bootloader locked might in fact be possible. that would give me low enough access that i could use the device effectively for my cluster even with a stock rom
we have custom recovery woo!!
so this means i *should* be able to build a custom postmarketOS recovery image and flash that.... here goes nothing
so the bad news is, that didn't work lol. and now i have a phone which won't boot
which you know, isn't really much of a downgrade from "a phone without a working touchscreen and no sim card"
petscop that's a dead kid voice: that's a dead phone
rip 2 gwyn, There Was An Attempt. c'est la vie
okay. so postmarketOS on a locked bootloader is a no go.
there is good news though.
i can resuscitate the phone
gonna make dinner while the repair runs. time for plan 2.
ONE MONTH LATER
so i successfully rooted the phone after some wrestling which means i have full access to rip as much out of the system as possible and try to set up an NFS server
hmmmm there's a few samba servers available, and although this one *appears* to be setting workgroup information correctly I can't actually connect to the share
hmmmmmm 🤔 ftp works when it's on the internal storage, but trying to R/W on the sdcard gives me problems
gonna get back to this after therapy
wait therapy is tomorrow, lol ok, i can keep hitting this
ok so playing with another FTP server, it appears like writing to the sdcard is in general going to be a problem. there's something happening with permissions there. so, i gotta figure that out
OK so i found an FTP server which explicitly asks for external write access and it also gave me a hint that i might need to make a specific subfolder to get around permission issues. THIS WORKED.
ok so my plan is absolutely perverted. i'm basically going to mount both FTP storage blocks from this phone onto my media server, then run a mergerFS instance across them and my old media folder, to create a larger media folder.
ok manjaro i guess it is probably a good idea to upgrade all these packages before you do this
mergerfs compiled, time to reboot and see if i can configure this absurdity
ahhh so, it seems one issue is that ftp doesn't report the volume size, which means that it can't be merged. alright, maybe i can get SMB to work?
WE HAVE SMB WORKING
I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY TURNED A BROKEN LOCKED ANDROID PHONE INTO A STORAGE NODE FOR MY MEDIA SERVER
yes this gives me only 40 GB of extra storage space. i don't care. this rules, this was fun as hell.
this phone was going to sit buried in my closet otherwise and i basically just turned it into a portable hard drive, are you kidding me? this rules!!
@lunalapin Over USB mass storage or somehow else?
Have you managed to deprive the phone of the will or ability to connect to wireless networks (WiFi or mobile)?
